NIH Electronic Resources & Tools: June 2011 Megan Columbus Acting Director, Division of Communications and Outreach NIH Office of Extramural Research

There is one big drawback to this conference…

Information overload!

Grants Policy Statement Institute Websites Application Guides OER Grants Website Notice of Award RePORT eRA Commons NIH Guide to Grants and Contracts

Orient you to NIH resources Encourage you to dive in and explore tools to learn more about the NIH grants portfolio PRESENTATION GOALS

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Trying to make heads or tails of the grants process?

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What is an R03, F31, X02, etc? Find out here!

Need to find a funding opportunity? Or the latest grants policy changes or announcements?

Search Grants.gov to Identify Potential Funding Agencies Fed-wide portal for finding grant opportunities

NIH GUIDE FOR GRANTS AND CONTRACTS What can I find in “The Guide”? –Notification of NIH policies, notices and availability of funds –NIH specific funding opportunity announcements

Public Access Advanced Guide search feature helps target your searches for notices or funding opportuniteis

Search results sortable by header

NIH Guide Notices keep you abreast of changes in funding opportunities, policies or announcements

NIH Guide is published daily. Subscribe to listserv to receive table of contents each Friday… or subscribe to our RSS feed or follow us on Twitter

When is this thing due?!

3 standard application dates per year for each type of grant Scroll further down the page for…

… review dates and earliest project start dates for each cycle …and other submission policies late applications holiday/weekend receipt dates continuous submission policies

Doing the right thing

NIH Grants Policy Statement –Explicitly defines roles, responsibilities –Is a term and condition of all grant awards –Available at: ps_2010/index.htm

Who speaks acronymese?! NIH FOAs (RFAs, PAs, PARs) issued by our ICs (NIAID, NCI, NIAAA, NIDA, NCI, NICHD, etc.) for AREA,SBIR and other programs reflect updates to GWAS, multiple PI, EPR and other policies.

Glossary of NIH terms: sary.htm NIH acronym definitions: nym_list.htm

Make sense of our ever changing environment

Subscribe to the monthly Nexus for a summary of NIH grant happenings, resources, events. Join the discussion on the Rock Talk blog!

All About Grants Channel on iTunes. New episode released every other Friday!

Check out other ways to connect as well

42 What is going on with your grant application or award?

43 In Commons you can find: Application image Application status Assignments (institute, review group) Summary statement (PI only) Scores Notice of Award Links to tools for reporting, no cost extensions, etc. NIH staff contacts And more…

I need to find someone to talk to!

FINDING THE RIGHT STAFF TO TALK TO AT NIH FOAs include contact names for program, review and grants management staff. Institute websites have org charts or contact lists so to help you find a name. RePORTER provides the NIH program official’s name for funded projects. Use the NIH Staff Directory if you already have a name

DETERMINING RELEVANCY OF YOUR PROJECT TO THE INSTITUTE PORTFOLIO Look on Institute websites for program highlights, areas of emphasis, priorities Talk to program staff at the funding Institute Look in RePORTER to see what NIH is currently funding

50 Using NIH’s Research Portfolio Online Report Tool (RePORT) to Your Advantage April 2011 Megan Columbus Director, Division of Communications and Outreach NIH Office of Extramural Research

51 Providing access to reports, data and analyses on NIH research activities RePORT.nih.gov

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53 RePORT: Research Portfolio Online Reporting Tool ? Opening the black box…

54 Which ICs fund research like yours NIH-funded workforce data Potential collaborators NIH grantees in your area Success rates Organizational funding information Award trends Providing a wide range of reports & data NIH staff contacts

55 On-Line Demo Let’s go live!

56 Interested in funding data for your institution or state? Want to know what types of organizations NIH funds?

57 Find funding of local institutions Drill down to grant level data

58 Award mapping allows for drill down to individual awards and organizations

59 NIH Data Book provides summary stats on applications, awards, organizations and people NIH supports

60 Graphs and tables export to Word, Excel or Powerpoint

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62 RePORTER Create your own search parameters using RePORTER tool

63 Enter search terms Save query and receive notifications Results can be exported to Excel for further analysis

64 PI contact info and profile (if this is your grant you can add your profile info by clicking on icon next to your name) NIH program official for this grant

65 Download full database using ExPORTER for further analysis

66 Data currently goes back to (Legacy data back to 1970 also available here.) Download projects, abstracts, publications, patents

67 RePORT: Your One-Stop Shop for NIH Data Search for reports

68 Search for specific report

69 Funding by disease area

70 Links take you to full project listings for each category

71 Institute strategic plans Biennial report

72 Quick stats

73 Information is power!

74 Pop Quiz (if we have time) Where would you find: 1.Page limits for research strategy 2.Reporting requirements 3.Review outcome (score) 4.Terms and conditions of award 5.Success rates for R01s 6.Institute funding priorities 7.Policy on late applications

Questions So feel free to forget what you have learned at this conference… all you need to remember is where to find information when you need it! Megan Columbus